Today’s opening of a new container terminal at the Moroccan hub of Tangiers is likely to bring relief to a West Mediterranean transhipment market hitting dangerous utilisation levels.
Maersk’s terminal operating subsidiary, APM Terminals, opened its second Tangier Med facility, …

The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) has appointed Lisa Wieland (pictured above) as its new chief executive, for a five-year term.
Ms Wieland is currently port director, a position she has held since 2015 and which has seen her increase port …

It’s not strictly about air cargo, but the brass neck of the US big three airlines never ceases to amaze. And the European Commission has decided to do something about it, reports ATW. It has given the US a “stern …

The UK government has announced new plans to create an “express freight contingency arrangement” to keep supplies of critical medicines coming into the country if it leaves the EU without a deal on 31 October.
In an apparent change of …

Agility will be the key for freighter operators which need to find new markets.
The latest data shows May, as expected, was another soft month in air cargo, with demand falling again, and trade tensions are not helping, but they …

MSC has signed a new contract with Cargotec’s MacGregor to upgrade the container intake on six 16,000 teu vessels to mitigate the loss of slots as a result of the installation of scrubber systems.
It follows a contract awarded at …

For the first time since its inception, DHL Global Forwarding’s quarterly trade monitor is set to show a contraction of global trade, indicating the impact of the China-US trade war.
In fact, the only major economy that may see some …